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Stop here if you haven't taken the poll. I think it is very readable but gives itself away by favoring certain phrases which suggest a template. Phrases like "w
by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Stop here if you haven't taken the poll. I think it is very readable but gives itself away by favoring certain phrases which suggest a template. Phrases like "we are done", "whenever", "therefore,[setting]". All the proofs are terse in general but it tends to spell things out more carefully than humans who prefer to string ideas using conjunctions and leave obvious basics as implicit.
Because it spells things out like a careful someone just learning (uses "so" less, the mature person is also apart) it would be a good tool for exposition. By that token I can also guess the grad student as the one who seems most comfortable (and also for favoring "take" and for all style statements while using "exist" and "since" least). This is most interesting for what it says about teaching and how internalized understanding makes teaching hard: expertise is an iceberg floating in a sea of unconscious reasoning. My guesses:
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grad student: b, c,a, b,a
bot: c, a, b,c,c
- pervycreeper 14y agoGreat observation. I didn't make it past the first problem, but I chose (c) as well. Reason being, that proof seems to have the least, shall we say, semantic depth (I'm just making up terms here). It invokes the least amount of meaning / refers to the fewest concepts per statement. Interestingly, not only is this a sign of having been produced automatically, it can often be a positive thing in terms of mathematical style.